Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Jan 25

CSi Weather…

…WINTER STORM WATCH  IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH MONDAY MORNING…INCLUDES THE JAMESTOWN AND VALLEY CITY AREAS

* WHAT…Heavy snow possible. Total snow accumulations of 5 to 7
inches possible. Winds could gust as high as 45 mph.

* WHERE…Rolette, Pierce, Wells, Foster and Stutsman counties. All of eastern North Dakota and northwest and west central Minnesota, portions of west central Minnesota and northeast and southeast North Dakota.

* WHEN…From Sunday afternoon through Monday morning.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS…Travel could be very difficult.
Widespread blowing snow could significantly reduce visibility.
The hazardous conditions could impact the morning commute. The
cold wind chills as low as 35 below zero could cause frostbite
on exposed skin in as little as 10 minutes.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

A Winter Storm Watch means there is potential for significant
snow, sleet or ice accumulations that may impact travel. Continue
to monitor the latest forecasts.

Forecast….

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow in the evening, then snow after midnight. Lows around 10 below. Northeast winds around 10 mph shifting to the southeast around 10 mph after midnight.
Wind chills around 25 below.

.SUNDAY…Snow. Patchy blowing and drifting snow. Snow may be
heavy at times in the afternoon. Snow accumulation of 4 to
5 inches. Highs around 15. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph. Lowest
wind chills around 25 below in the morning.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Cloudy. Snow in the evening, then chance of snow
after midnight. Blowing and drifting snow through the night.
Visibility one quarter mile or less at times. Windy. Light snow
accumulations. Lows around 5 below. Northeast winds around 25 mph
shifting to the north after midnight. Gusts up to 55 mph.

.MONDAY…Partly sunny. Areas of blowing and drifting snow in the
morning. Highs 5 to 10 above. Northwest winds around 15 mph.
Gusts up to 40 mph decreasing to 30 mph in the afternoon.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows around 15 below.

.TUESDAY…Partly sunny. Highs around 10 below.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows around 25 below.

.WEDNESDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs around 15 below.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows around 25 below.

.THURSDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs around 5 below.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows around 15 below.

.FRIDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs 5 to 10 above

A  significant clipper system moves through the state Sunday
and Sunday night, bringing the potential for several inches of
snow across parts of northwestern and much of central North
Dakota.

Strong northwest winds will develop Sunday afternoon and
continue Sunday night into Monday, with the strongest winds more
likely over southwestern North Dakota.

Areas of blowing and drifting snow may create hazardous travel across all of western and central North Dakota.

Those traveling across the state this weekend into Monday should
monitor the latest weather and road conditions, and stay tuned to
the latest forecasts regarding this potentially dangerous winter
weather.

Jamestown  (CSi)  Jamestown city crews will begin the full snow plowing program starting with the Emergency routes beginning approximately at 5:00 a.m., Monday, January 28, 2019.

City crews will begin plowing residential areas at 11:00 a.m., Monday,  January 28, 2019.  Crews will continue work during the night with the downtown district beginning at 11:00 pm,

Downtown merchants and all public/private schools are asked to have their sidewalks shoveled by 9 p.m., Monday, January 28, 2019.

 

Update…

Jamestown (JPD) –    Jamestown Police Lt. Nick Hardy says  the dangerous pit bull, ” Blaze,”  was captured after  biting a fifth person in Jamestown late Friday evening.

An individual  was able to detain the dog in a garage and turn it over to officers and animal control.

About the same, time during an unrelated call for service, the owner of the dog was summoned to court for numerous animal violations,  and for conspiracy to commit aggravated assault.

No further information will be released by police, until formal charges are filed.

On Friday,  the Jamestown Police Department asked for the public’s help in locating “a dangerous red/brown 70-90 pound Pitbull with a white chest and feet.”

At that time, the dog was last seen in the area of the Buffalo Motel in Jamestown around 2:00pm. Friday.

The police department had information that this animal has bitten at least three people in the last ten days, and four since September of 2018.

At last report, the most serious bite occurred Friday January 25 at approximately 2:00pm  at the Buffalo Motel.

That victim was treated for serious injuries at the Jamestown Regional Medical Center.

On Friday police asked anyone with information on the whereabouts of this animal or sees this animal on the loose, to contact police, and not to   approach or attempt to apprehend the animal.

 

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Jamestown Chorlaires concert,  “A World of Music,” will be on Friday January 25 and Saturday January 26,  at 7:30 p.m. each evening at the Jamestown High School Theater.

Tickets are $12 for adults and $5 for children , available at the door each evening of the concert or in advance from Choralaires members, Boys’ Choir members and at Looysen I Care, at  821 1st Avenue, South.  For more information on the event, contact Mark Sherfy at 952-6049 or msherfy@daktel.com and visit www.choralaires.com.

On Tuesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, members, Roger Caine and Alden Kollmam said, the concert features singing styles from the United States, Canada, South America, Europe, Africa and Russia. The Jamestown Boys’ Choir, Directed by Meredith Meidinger, joins the Choralaires, performing “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands” and “Dona Nobis Pacem.”

The Choralaires, directed by Pam Burkhardt, will be  accompanied by Richard Walentine, and are the only North Dakota member chorus of the Associated Male Choruses of America, the group hosted Big Sings in 2016, 2012, 2004, and 1997.  Roger said there will not be a Big Sing held this year.

Roger pointed out that the January concert is dedicated to Larry Hoffman, in his 60th year as a baritone with the Choralaires. Larry will perform a solo of the Navy Hymn.

Alden has been a Choralaires member for 14 year, and Roger for 46 years.  The Choralaires formed in 1955.

Roger said in May this year, the Choralaires will host a ‘Mini Sing,” in Jamestown with male choruses invited from the Valley City Troubadours, and from Bismarck and Minot.

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Jamestown Classic Car Club Winter Wheels Show is Saturday January 26, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Jamestown Civic Center.

Admission for adults is $8, $2 for children ages 6-12, $6 for veterans. Free Hot Wheels will be given to children under 6, while supplies last.

Awards will be given at 6 p.m.

Planned is a virtual race car and various EGG experiences.

The North Dakota Street Rod Association will have a booth set up for anyone wishing to sign up for that organization.

Vendors will participate with vehicle related items, plus items for the ladies in attendance.

Anticipated to be at this year’s show, are:

An American LaFrance fire truck and a Mack semi tractor.

Coming from THE SHED in Warroad, Minnesota, are a pink 1967 Playmate Mustang, a 1953 Buick Skylark convertible, a custom-built motorcycle and guitars signed by Alice Cooper that were sold at a benefit auction.

Legend Race vehicles will be viewed in the entry from the Jamestown Speedway , plus displays of go karts by Buffalo City Karting, and displays from Jamestown Drag Racing Association.

 

 

Jamestown  (uj.edu) University of Jamestown is sponsoring a free Community Ice Skate Event on Sat., Jan. 26, 2019 from 2-4 p.m. (Date Change)  The event will take place on the outdoor rink that was built for Hockey Day North Dakota. It is located on Allen Field in the middle of the University of Jamestown campus.

“University of Jamestown employees and students are looking forward to welcoming the community to campus to enjoy a few hours of outdoor skating together,” said Tena Lawrence, Sr. Vice President for Public Relations and Marketing.

Participants will need to bring their own skates. The University will provide free hot chocolate for all attendees. Attendees are also invited to pick up a free pass to that day’s basketball or hockey game.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A Nevada man has been sentenced to 45 years in prison for sexually abusing a toddler from the Fargo and Moorhead, Minnesota area.Prosecutors say 43-year-old Bryan Hogle, of Las Vegas, was convicted on charges of conspiracy to transport a minor and coercion and enticement.Investigators say a co-defendant, 36-year-old Dustin Kewley, took the 1-year-old child from Fargo to Moorhead, where he and Hogle abused the toddler at a hotel in May 2017.Kewley and Hogle then took steps to conceal their crime, such as deleting their communications.Federal agents, working undercover, began communicating with Kewley who said he planned to produce a video of the child being abused. Kewley electronically sent the video to an undercover agent.Kewley was sentenced earlier to 35 years in prison.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Correction officials say the North Dakota State Penitentiary is on lock down because of two separate assaults on staff members.

Seven employees were referred to a doctor following the assaults at the maximum-security prison. The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation did not provide specifics about the assaults, which are under investigation.

Corrections officials say they will review the lock down on Monday. Visitation, either in person or by video, is banned during a lock down.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A contractor was injured after plunging through a ceiling and about 10 feet to the floor of the Fargo Shanley High School library.

The school tells KVRR-TV that the contractor was working on the heating system Friday morning when the mishap occurred. The worker was taken to a hospital with unknown injuries.

None of the 15 students in the library at the time was hurt.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Law enforcement officials in North Dakota say they aren’t to blame for a severe arm injury a New York City woman sustained while protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline and that public statements they made blaming her weren’t aimed at damaging her character.

They’re asking a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit that Sophia Wilansky filed in November seeking millions of dollars in damages for alleged excessive force, assault, negligence, emotional distress and defamation.

Defense attorneys argue in court documents filed this week that Wilansky has no plausible evidence that her civil rights were violated.

Wilansky was injured during a violent November 2016 clash between protesters and police during the unsuccessful months-long protest in southern North Dakota against the $3.8 billion pipeline.

 

MANDAN, N.D. (AP) — A Mandan Lyft driver has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a rider.

The Bismarck Tribune reports that jurors convicted 39-year-old Corey Wickham on Thursday after a two-day trial and nearly eight hours of deliberations.

A woman told police that Wickham picked her up from a bar last August and sexually assaulted her. He testified that the woman consented to sex, though he acknowledged she was drunk.

Sentencing was not immediately scheduled.

 

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota House has defeated a measure to increase the state’s cigarette tax from 44 cents a pack to 84 cents.The House also defeated a measure Friday that would have added electronic smoking devices to the list of taxable tobacco products.State and federal data show North Dakota ranks 46th among states in the amount of tax smokers pay.The state has not raised its tax on cigarettes since 1993, and lawmakers have rebuffed several attempts for an increase.

 

BISAMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Senate has killed a bill that that would require all schools to offer classes on the Bible.Senators rejected the bill 42-5 on Friday.The American Civil Liberties Union’s North Dakota chapter says the measure championed by Republican Sen. Oley Larson is “blatantly unconstitutional” and would likely lead to litigation if approved by the Legislature.Larson is a former teacher from Minot. He wants schools to offer curriculum that covers the Old Testament, the New Testament or a combination of the two. But he says students would not have to take it.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Senate has rejected a measure that would prohibit housing or workforce discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.The bill was defeated 27-20 on Friday. It’s the latest defeat for an idea that’s gone down several times in recent years.Democratic Senate Minority leader Joan Heckaman says people are leaving North Dakota because they don’t feel accepted.Republican Sen. Diane Larson says no one testified in a committee hearing that they have been denied housing or a job based on their sexual orientation.A similar bill has been introduced in the House but it does not include gender identity.

 

 

In world and national news..

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says the Senate will pass legislation on Friday that’s intended to reopen the government after a record-long 35 day shutdown.

McConnell says he knows “the pain that this episode has caused” across the country. The Kentucky Republican says federal workers who have gone without pay “deserve this resolution.”

President Donald Trump has agreed to a fund the government for three weeks, through Feb. 15. Negotiations continue on his demand for money to build a border wall with Mexico.

McConnell says he hopes there will be “good-faith negotiations” in the coming weeks to settle differences on border security.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer says Democrats oppose the billions of dollars Trump wants to build the wall, but do agree on other ways to secure the border. He says that “bodes well for coming to an eventual agreement.”

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Trump adviser Roger Stone says he believes his arrest in the special counsel’s Russia probe was “politically motivated” and he’s vowing to plead not guilty and fight the charges.

Stone spoke to reporters after he was released from a Florida courthouse on Friday. He’s been charged with witness tampering, obstruction and lying to Congress.

Stone said he is “falsely accused” of making false statements to the House intelligence committee. He says any error he made in his testimony wasn’t intentional.

FBI agents arrested Stone during a pre-dawn raid at his Fort Lauderdale home. Stone says he would have voluntarily surrendered to federal officials.

He was released on a $250,000 personal surety in Fort Lauderdale. His case will be transferred to Washington, D.C.

 

 

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Supreme Court has upheld a law that effectively requires transgender people to be sterilized before they can have their gender changed on official documents.

The court said the law is constitutional because it was meant to reduce confusion in families and society. But it acknowledged that it restricts freedom and could become out of step with changing social values.

The law states that people wishing to register a gender change must have their original reproductive organs removed and have a body that “appears to have parts that resemble the genital organs” of the gender they want to register.

The decision, published Thursday, rejected an appeal by Takakito Usui, a transgender man who said forced sterilization violates the right to self-determination and is unconstitutional.

 

 

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Eleven young offenders have been granted their freedom in Panama following a meeting with Pope Francis at the country’s main youth detention center.

Government official Emma Alba says one of them is 21-year-old Luis Oscar Martinez, who told the pontiff earlier Friday that he had turned his life around since his arrest in 2016.

Martinez told local TV that he was looking forward to being reunited with his family, “church brethren” and “the people who I know love me dearly.”

At the detention center, Francis exhorted the more than 100 inmates gathered at the facility not to lose hope and denounced marginalization and stigmatization of them.

Alba did not give the names of all those released, nor say what crimes they had been convicted of.

The pope regularly visits prisons during his foreign trips, in keeping with his belief in ministering to those on the margins of society.

 

 

GREENSBORO, Md. (AP) — A civil rights group is calling for an independent investigation of the death of a black teenager who struggled with police officers on Maryland’s Eastern Shore before he died in their custody.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland said in a statement Friday that the U.S. Justice Department or Maryland State Prosecutor should investigate the September 2018 death of 19-year-old Anton Black in Greensboro.

The Maryland State Police investigated Black’s death. The state’s chief medical examiner released an autopsy report before Caroline County State’s Attorney Joseph Riley announced Thursday that he isn’t asking a grand jury to consider criminal charges in Black’s death.

Attorneys for Black’s family also have vowed to ask the Justice Department’s civil rights division to investigate.

The ACLU’s statement says a newly released body camera video of the deadly encounter shows officers used excessive force on a man who shouldn’t have been arrested.

 

DETROIT (AP) — Fiat Chrysler is recalling nearly 180,000 pickup trucks in North America to fix an electrical problem that can knock out the power steering.The recall covers Ram 1500 pickups from the 2019 model year. Most are in the U.S. and one-third are still on dealer lots.The company says a fastener that grounds the battery wasn’t secured properly in manufacturing. The connection can become loose, which disables the power steering. Drivers can still steer but the effort it takes wouldn’t be consistent.FCA says it has no reports of crashes or injuries.Dealers will secure the fastener at no cost to owners. Fiat Chrysler says it doesn’t have a date for the recall to begin, but it under U.S. law it has to start within 60 days.